Resilience

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This subfield examines the ways in which individuals can develop resilience in the face of adversity.

Definition of resilience: An overview of what resilience means, including its different facets and types of resilience.
Importance of resilience: A discussion of why resilience is an essential quality to cultivate in life, the benefits of resilience, and how it affects our daily lives.
Adversity and resilience: A look at how adversity can shape and strengthen resilience, how challenging situations can help us build resilience, and how to develop resilience to endure life's challenges.
Character strengths and resilience: An exploration of the virtues that help build resilience, including perseverance, optimism, self-efficacy, and positive emotions, and how to cultivate these character strengths.
The science of resilience: An examination of psychological research on resilience, including the neurobiological and environmental factors that contribute to resilience.
Building resilience in children and teens: Strategies and interventions for cultivating resilience in children and teens, including developing positive coping mechanisms, building social support, and fostering a growth mindset.
Developing resilience in the workplace: The importance of resilience in the workplace, how to cultivate resilience among employees, and the role of leaders in promoting a resilient organization.
Building resilience in relationships: Strategies for building resilient relationships, including developing communication skills, building empathy, and cultivating forgiveness and patience.
Mindfulness and resilience: An overview of how mindfulness practices can build resilience, including cultivating awareness, self-compassion, and emotional regulation.
Resilience and mental health: The role of resilience in mental health, including how resilience can help prevent and overcome mental health conditions, and how to develop resilience to improve mental well-being.
Psychological resilience: This type of resilience refers to an individual's ability to adapt and cope with difficult or traumatic situations.
Emotional resilience: It is the ability to recognize and regulate one's emotions appropriately in response to external stressors and maintaining emotional balance.
Physical resilience: This type of resilience refers to one's ability to adapt to physical challenges and recover from injury, illness, or trauma.
Social resilience: Social resilience refers to one's ability to form positive relationships with others, manage social pressure and conflict, and effectively communicate with others.
Financial resilience: It is the ability to make and manage financial decisions to survive economic hardships.
Occupational resilience: It is the ability of an individual to adapt to changes in the workplace and navigate career transitions.
Environmental resilience: Environmental resilience is the ability of individuals, communities or systems to adapt and recover from natural disasters, anthropogenic disasters or environment damage.
Quote: "The term was popularized in the 1970s and 1980s by psychologist Emmy Werner..."
Quote: "Psychological resilience is the ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis, or to return to pre-crisis status quickly."
Quote: "She conducted a forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children..."
Quote: "Hawaiian children who came from low socioeconomic status backgrounds."
Quote: "Numerous factors influence a person's level of resilience."
Quote: "Internal factors include personal characteristics such as self-esteem, self-regulation, and a positive outlook on life."
Quote: "External factors include social support systems, including relationships with family, friends, and community, as well as access to resources and opportunities."
Quote: "People can leverage psychological interventions and other strategies to enhance their resilience and better cope with adversity."
Quote: "These include cognitive-behavioral techniques, mindfulness practices..."
Quote: "Building psychosocial factors..."
Quote: "Fostering positive emotions..."
Quote: "Promoting self-compassion."
Quote: "The ability to cope mentally and emotionally with a crisis."
Quote: "Personal characteristics such as self-esteem, self-regulation, and a positive outlook on life."
Quote: "Social support systems, including relationships with family, friends, and community."
Quote: "Access to resources and opportunities."
Quote: "Mindfulness practices..."
Quote: "A forty-year-long study of a cohort of Hawaiian children."
Quote: "Psychological interventions and other strategies."
Quote: "...to return to pre-crisis status quickly."